Do you like to keep an eye on what’s going on with the vitals of your Mac? You can use the Activity Monitor app to see detailed information on the processes your Mac is running and how they affect the ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

OS X’s Activity Monitor is an essential tool to help you keep your system in good shape. In this report we tell you what it is and some ways to use it. Activity Monitor lets you watch your Mac. It ...

In a recent post, I drew analogies between Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows. Although the conclusion of that prior writeup was generally favorable to ...

With the Activity Monitor app in macOS, you can force quit misbehaving apps, find out how much energy your Mac is using, and see which apps or processes are eating the most processor cycles. If you're ...